| TN | HB0154 | Pass | Subject to local approval, authorizes the county to impose a solid waste disposal fee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-12
Pr. Ch. 2 |
| TN | HB0082 | Engross | As introduced, establishes state employment protections for members of the national guard, state guard, and civil air patrol called to active state duty equivalent to the federal Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (USER...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-12
Passed Senate, Ayes 32, Nays 0 |
| TN | HB0384 | Pass | As introduced, enacts "Evelyn Boswell's Law." - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 38 and Title 39.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-12
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 107 |
| TN | HB0428 | Pass | As introduced, revises the sentence for aggravated rape of a child when committed by a juvenile, as required by the U.S. Supreme Court in Miller v. Alabama, from mandatory life imprisonment without parole to a Class A felony to be sentenced within Ra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-12
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 104 |
| TN | HB1163 | Pass | As introduced, prohibits a county board of health or county department of health from prohibiting or regulating agriculture. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 2, Part 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-12
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 106 |
| TN | HB0072 | Engross | As introduced, creates process by which the commissioner of correction may certify as eligible for parole certain chronically debilitated or incapacitated inmates; clarifies that medical conditions for which an inmate may be granted a furlough by the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-12
H. concurred in S. am. no. SA1 Ayes 91, Nays 0 PNV 0 HB0072 |
| TN | HJR0380 | Engross | Mickela Mooney, 2020-2021 FFA West Tennessee Vice President
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-12
To Senate Calendar Committee |
| TN | HJR0358 | Engross | Dolly Parton
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-12
Concurred, Ayes 31, Nays 0 |
| TN | HB0732 | Intro | As introduced, requires a landlord subject to the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act to provide electronic notifications required by the act to the email address provided by a tenant for the purpose of electronic notifications, instead of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-12
Passed H., as am., Ayes 89, Nays 0, PNV 4 |
| TN | HB0768 | Intro | As introduced, designates certain licensing periods as provisional licensing periods; requires the department to establish and implement a quality assessment and rating system to evaluate child care agencies; makes various other changes relative to l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-12
Comp. SB subst. |
| TN | HB1137 | Intro | As introduced, prohibits the state, a political subdivision, or a public official from prohibiting or imposing additional restrictions on the lawful operations of a church or religious organization during a state of emergency, major disaster, or natu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-12
Passed H., as am., Ayes 70, Nays 18, PNV 1 |
| TN | HB0083 | Enroll | As introduced, extends eligibility for tuition reimbursement provided to members of the Tennessee national guard under the STRONG Act of 2017 to include technical certificates and diplomas and certain graduate programs; extends, from June 30, 2021, t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-09
Enrolled; ready for sig. of H. Speaker. |
| TN | HB0587 | Enroll | As introduced, allows LEAs and private or church-related schools to use excess instructional time accumulated during the school year for serious outbreaks of illness affecting or endangering students or staff without requiring approval from the commi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-08
Transmitted to Governor for his action. |
| TN | HB1096 | Enroll | As introduced, confers immunity from civil liability upon a teacher, principal, school employee, or school bus driver properly using reasonable force to correct or restrain a student or prevent bodily harm or death to another person. - Amends TCA Tit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-08
Transmitted to Governor for his action. |
| TN | HB0073 | Intro | As introduced, removes antiquated language regarding the teacher evaluation advisory committee, which ceased to exist on July 1, 2011. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-08
To House Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee |
| TN | HB0529 | Intro | As introduced, requires an LEA or public charter school to notify a student's parent or guardian prior to commencing instruction of a sexual orientation or gender identity curriculum; permits a parent or guardian to excuse the parent's or guardian's ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-08
To House Calendar and Rules Committee |
| TN | HB0155 | Intro | As introduced, encourages each county's joint economic and community development board to include representation from school systems located within the county; revises other powers and actions taken by the board. - Amends TCA Section 6-58-114.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
[Hearing: Apr 14 @ 11:00 am]
To House Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee |
| TN | HB0130 | Intro | As introduced, requires the department to increase over a three-year period the wage for direct care professionals employed by contracted agencies of the department to $15 per hour; requires annual increases in the hourly wage thereafter. - Amends TC...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
[Hearing: Apr 14 @ 11:00 am]
To House Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee |
| TN | HB0745 | Intro | As introduced, creates the "Tennessee Work Ready Opportunity Program," to assess and certify individuals' career readiness using nationally recognized assessments. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 11; Title 49, Chapter 6 and Title 49, Chapter 7.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
[Hearing: Apr 14 @ 3:30 pm]
To House Education Instruction Committee |
| TN | HB0865 | Intro | As introduced, requires the board to determine the percentage of any increase in funds appropriated to the instructional salaries and wages component of the basic education program (BEP) and increase the minimum salary on the state salary schedule by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
[Hearing: Apr 14 @ 3:30 pm]
To House Education Administration Committee |
| TN | HB0119 | Intro | As introduced, requires the bureau to implement a program to assist in the locating of missing, vulnerable citizens, called the Silver Alert program, that will supersede the Care Alert program. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
[Hearing: Apr 14 @ 11:00 am]
To House Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee |
| TN | HB0044 | Intro | As introduced, funds social worker positions through the BEP at a ratio of one per 1,500 or fewer students. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
[Hearing: Apr 14 @ 11:00 am]
To House Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee |
| TN | HB1304 | Intro | As introduced, updates reference to a house committee name to reflect that the education administration committee of the house of representatives must receive the report submitted by the commissioner regarding disciplinary actions in Tennessee school...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
[Hearing: Apr 14 @ 11:00 am]
To House Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee |
| TN | HB1516 | Intro | As introduced, deletes antiquated language that required the comptroller's office to study the formation and operation of community schools and report its finding by November 1, 2018. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
[Hearing: Apr 14 @ 3:30 pm]
To House Education Instruction Committee |
| TN | HB0771 | Intro | As introduced, requires the department of labor and workforce development, on or before January 1, 2022, to submit a report to the house commerce committee and the senate commerce and labor committee discussing apprenticeship programs for minors in t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
[Hearing: Apr 14 @ 11:00 am]
To House Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee |
| TN | HB0761 | Intro | As introduced, exempts from sales tax purchases of gun safes and gun safety devices. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
[Hearing: Apr 14 @ 11:00 am]
To House Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee |
| TN | HB0631 | Intro | As introduced, establishes a deaf mentor program to be carried out by the West Tennessee School for the Deaf in Jackson and the Tennessee School for the Deaf in Nashville and Knoxville. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 10, Part 9.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
Assigned to s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee |
| TN | HB0058 | Pass | As introduced, changes, from six months to 12 months, the permitted holding period by a bank for non-real-property acquired in satisfaction of a loan. - Amends TCA Title 45.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-06
Pub. Ch. 78 |
| TN | HB0016 | Pass | As introduced, enacts the "Teacher's Discipline Act"; establishes a process for a teacher to request the removal of a student from the teacher's classroom if the student's behavior violates the LEA's or school's student discipline policy or code of c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-06
Pub. Ch. 77 |
| TN | HB0003 | Pass | As introduced, requires that a student's gender for purposes of participation in a public middle school or high school interscholastic athletic activity or event be determined by the student's sex at the time of the student's birth, as indicated on t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-06
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 40 |
| TN | HB1407 | Intro | As introduced, requires that a petition by a teacher to the commissioner of education for waiver of any requirement for renewal of the teacher's license on the basis of the teacher's performance effectiveness level on each of the last three evaluatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-06
To House K-12 Subcommittee |
| TN | HB0434 | Pass | As introduced, permits service of ex parte orders of protection for up to one year from issuance; creates a lifetime order of protection that can be issued to a victim of certain felony offenses to prohibit the offender from coming about or communica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-06
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 60 |
| TN | HB0824 | Intro | As introduced, prohibits a licensee that offers interactive sports wagering from allowing a person to place a bet or wager at the same location as where the person entered into a flex loan plan, a title pledge agreement, a deferred presentment servic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-06
Returned to the Clerk's Desk. |
| TN | HB0658 | Intro | As introduced, makes certain changes to the types of procurement contracts that are subject to review and approval by the comptroller of the treasury; alters the timing of such review and approval. - Amends TCA Section 4-56-108.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-05
Comp. SB subst. |
| TN | HB0025 | Engross | As introduced, provides that a person who uses justifiable force against another may request a stay of proceedings in any civil action based on the use of force until the criminal investigation has concluded; allows for an immunity hearing at which t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-01
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration |
| TN | HB0110 | Intro | As introduced, enacts the "Save Tennessee Call Center Jobs Act of 2021." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 12; Title 50 and Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
Def. to Summer Study in Banking & Consumer Affairs Subcommittee |
| TN | HJR0239 | Intro | Christine Karbowiak, Middle Tennessee State University, Board of Trustees
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
To House Calendar and Rules Committee |
| TN | HJR0230 | Pass | Hayley Arceneaux
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-30
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB0677 | Intro | As introduced, requires insurer step therapy protocols for prescription drug coverage to adhere to certain guidelines; requires insurers to provide an exception process for step therapy protocols that meets certain criteria; requires the department o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-30
Def. to Summer Study in Insurance Subcommittee |
| TN | HB0512 | Engross | As introduced, allows a person convicted of attempted first degree murder to be sentenced to imprisonment for life without possibility of parole if the offense is committed against certain persons. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13 and Title 40, Chap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-29
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration |
| TN | HB0511 | Engross | As introduced, limits the punishment a jury can consider for a defendant convicted of first degree murder committed against certain persons engaged in the performance of official duties to death or imprisonment for life without possibility of parole....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-29
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration |
| TN | HB0533 | Intro | As introduced, revises various provisions regarding initial educator licensure, advancement, and renewal, including requiring the state board, when issuing an educator license to an out-of-state educator, to issue a license that is equivalent to the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-29
Comp. SB subst. |
| TN | HB0374 | Engross | As introduced, requires that members of a community oversight board complete the local police force's citizen academy course within six months of beginning service on the board; removes authority from the board until all members have complied. - Amen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-29
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration |
| TN | HB0830 | Engross | As introduced, requires a manufacturer, under certain circumstances, to replace farm machinery with comparable farm machinery or accept return of the farm machinery and refund the full purchase price and related repair costs, less a reasonable allowa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-29
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration |
| TN | HR0030 | Pass | National Medal of Honor Day, March 25, 2021
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-26
Signed by H. Speaker |
| TN | HJR0212 | Pass | Honor the service of the first responders of Tennessee during the COVID-19 pandemic.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-25
Signed by Governor. |
| TN | HB0049 | Engross | As introduced, requires a local law enforcement agency to submit a sexual assault evidence collection kit to the state crime lab or other similar qualified laboratory for testing within 30 days of a victim filing a police report, rather than within 6...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-25
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration |
| TN | HB1145 | Engross | As introduced, designates farms as critical infrastructure for purposes of the offense of critical infrastructure vandalism so the destruction or interference with any farm will be at least a Class E felony. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 43.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-25
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration |
| TN | HB0537 | Intro | As introduced, increases the number of BEP funded full-time public school nurse positions from one for every 3,000 students to one for every 750 students; increases the number of full-time public school nurses considered sufficient for the public sch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-24
Placed behind the budget |
| TN | HB0513 | Intro | As introduced, increases the penalty for obstructing a highway from a Class B or C misdemeanor to a Class E felony and makes other related changes; creates the offense of throwing an object at another while participating in a riot; creates the offens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-24
Placed behind the budget |
